I saw a large, powerful rotor style water sprinkler in use today, Tuesday 7/17/2012, at approx 3:20 PM CDT, at which time the sun was shining and the temperature was in the 95-100 range.

The place was what I'm pretty such must be a East High School athletic field, unless there's some other big such space along East Johnson between North Street and where it (Johnson) hits Packers, by Hooper. - Couldn't stop and inspect thoroughly, as I was on a bus.

With all of the drought/heat conversation, including the utterly sensible emphasis on water conservation, this particularly egregious example of Bad Behavior renders me cranky enough to go into tattle-tale mode. I hope somebody knows somebody, and somebody gets in trouble!

I can speak as someone whose kids played youth sports on Madison high school athletic fields. I can assure you that in the best of years, they are so hard that they undoubtedly cause many injuries. I am sure this year will be much worse.

My guess is that they are watering in the daytime because they want their staff to be coordinating it, and paying OT at 6 AM or 10 PM would be cost prohibitive.